{"id":60252,"date":"2024-12-08T16:22:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T21:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=60252"},"modified":"2024-12-08T16:24:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T21:24:12","slug":"governor-desantis-makes-three-judicial-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2024\/12\/governor-desantis-makes-three-judicial-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor DeSantis Makes Three Judicial Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/westorlandonews.com\/author\/staff\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><ins>F<\/ins>lorida Governor Ron DeSantis recently announced three judicial appointments.<br><br>The Republican Governor appointed judges to the Seventeeth Judicial Circuit Court, the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Court, and the Twentieth Judicial Circuit Court.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"634\" height=\"297\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-72-1-png.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60253\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-72-1-png.avif 634w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Screenshot-72-1-300x141.avif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/westorlandonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/judicialappointments3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Johnathan Lott, of Fort Lauderdale, to serve as Judge on the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court<\/strong><br>Lott has served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida since 2020. Previously, he was an Associate Attorney at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP. He earned his bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Florida and his juris doctor from the University of Chicago. Lott fills the judicial vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Murphy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Laura Moody, of Rockledge, to serve as Judge on the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Court<\/strong><br>Moody has served as the Chief Legal Counsel for the Brevard County Sheriff\u2019s Office since 2019. Previously, she served as an Assistant State Attorney for the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit. She earned her bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Central Florida and her juris doctor from Florida A&amp;M University. Moody fills the judicial vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Maloney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Darrell Hill, of Labelle, to serve as Judge on the Twentieth Judicial Circuit Court<\/strong><br>Hill has served as a County Court Judge for Hendry County since 2018. Previously, he was the Owner of Darrell R. Hill, P.A. He earned his bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Florida and his juris doctor from Cumberland School of Law. Hill fills the judicial vacancy created by the enactment of HB 5401.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently announced three judicial appointments. The Republican Governor appointed judges to the Seventeeth Judicial Circuit Court, the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Court, and the Twentieth Judicial Circuit&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":60253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2883],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60254,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60252\/revisions\/60254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}